World Countries — ISO 3166 Codes, Capitals, Regions, Area, Currencies, Languages, Borders

DatasetCSV.GZOpenCountriesIso 3166ReferenceGeographyFree

Every country and territory in ISO 3166 (250 rows) with alpha-2, alpha-3 and numeric codes, common and official names, capitals, UN region and sub-region, land area, independence and UN-membership flags, currencies, languages, centroid coordinates, landlocked flag, land borders, top-level domain and calling code. Built from the mledoze/countries compilation on 2026-09-05. The reference table every other dataset joins to; pair with the World Population set for headcounts. Read with pandas.read_csv(path, compression='gzip').

Use Cases

Join key for any country-level dataset
Region and sub-region grouping
Currency and language lookups
Map centroids and neighbour graphs

Methodology

Single fetch of countries.json; one row per ISO 3166 entity, sorted by common name.

Update Schedule

Static snapshot. Country data changes a few times a year; refresh quarterly.

Attribution

Source: mledoze/countries (github.com/mledoze/countries), Open Database License (ODbL).

Schema

name	type
alpha_2	string
alpha_3	string
numeric	integer
name	string
official_name	string
capital	string
region	string
sub_region	string
area_km2	number
independent	boolean
un_member	boolean
status	string
currencies	string
languages	string
latitude	number
longitude	number
landlocked	boolean
borders	string
tld	string
calling_code	string

Sample Data

tld	name	region	status	alpha_2	alpha_3	borders	capital	numeric	area_km2	latitude	languages	longitude	un_member	currencies	landlocked	sub_region	independent	calling_code	official_name
.af	Afghanistan	Asia	officially-assigned	AF	AFG	IRN;PAK;TKM;UZB;TJK;CHN	Kabul	004	652230	33	Dari;Pashto;Turkmen	65	true	AFN	true	Southern Asia	true	+93	Islamic Republic of Afghanistan
.ax	Åland Islands	Europe	officially-assigned	AX	ALA		Mariehamn	248	1580	60.116667	Swedish	19.9	false	EUR	false	Northern Europe	false	+35818	Åland Islands
.al	Albania	Europe	officially-assigned	AL	ALB	MNE;GRC;MKD;UNK	Tirana	008	28748	41	Albanian	20	true	ALL	false	Southeast Europe	true	+355	Republic of Albania
.dz;الجزائر.	Algeria	Africa	officially-assigned	DZ	DZA	TUN;LBY;NER;ESH;MRT;MLI;MAR	Algiers	012	2381741	28	Arabic	3	true	DZD	false	Northern Africa	true	+213	People's Democratic Republic of Algeria
.as	American Samoa	Oceania	officially-assigned	AS	ASM		Pago Pago	016	199	-14.33333333	English;Samoan	-170	false	USD	false	Polynesia	false	+1684	American Samoa

Get this via API

# 1. Add dAgentBase once, in any MCP client. No install, no vendor keys.
#    Claude.ai / Claude Desktop: Settings -> Connectors -> Add custom connector
#    Cursor / Claude Code / others: mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "dagentbase": {
      "url": "https://dagentbase.com/api/mcp",
      "headers": { "Authorization": "Bearer dm_live_YOUR_KEY" }
    }
  }
}

# 2. Then ask your agent, in plain language:
#    "Preview 'World Countries — ISO 3166 Codes, Capitals, Regions, Area, Currencies, Languages, Borders' and, if it fits, claim it and download the files."
#    Tools it will use: search_listings -> preview_listing -> purchase_listing -> get_download_urls

# 1. Add dAgentBase once, in any MCP client. No install, no vendor keys.
#    Claude.ai / Claude Desktop: Settings -> Connectors -> Add custom connector
#    Cursor / Claude Code / others: mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "dagentbase": {
      "url": "https://dagentbase.com/api/mcp",
      "headers": { "Authorization": "Bearer dm_live_YOUR_KEY" }
    }
  }
}

# 2. Then ask your agent, in plain language:
#    "Preview 'World Countries — ISO 3166 Codes, Capitals, Regions, Area, Currencies, Languages, Borders' and, if it fits, claim it and download the files."
#    Tools it will use: search_listings -> preview_listing -> purchase_listing -> get_download_urls

Free

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Details

Rows250

Size14.8 KB

Files1

FormatCSV.GZ

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